Sorry norton, I meant to direct this to EPU. In a round about way, I think (!). Saying what I thought you responded to.
Sorry for my confusion.
And also sorry to question anyone's service. Got burned by a few jokers a while back. Some guys lie about their sevice. Got burned a few times.
No Sweat.
I guess youi've also heard "don't mean nothin'"
and several more.
Victor, Charlie, Mr Charles, slope, zip, dink, yadda-yadda.
Half are racist to today's norms and all merely serve to set you apart from the other guy - it helps when he, or someone looking very much like him, is trying to kill you.
Still, "gook" seemed to me at least to come from another generation; I think I said I rarely heard it, not never at all and perhaps more often after than during....
Not at all odd that it never occurred to me to walk up to a Korean grunt and say "gook" out loud or any other way.